Improvement in safes



waited I (giclee @met @twine Letters Patent No. 100,093, dated February22, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN SAPBS.

The Schedule referred to in these Lettere Patent and. making part of thesame.

To all 107mm. 'it may concern Beit-known that we, LEWIS .F.WHITING andFRANK- LIN SMITH, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk, and

State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Burglar-ProofSafes and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, andexact description of the construction of the same, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings and letters of ref-l -ereuce markedthereon, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure'l is aside elevation of a section of our in volition.

i Figure 2 is a section through liue x as, fig. 1, and

Figure 3, a section through line y y, fig. 1.

This invention consists in constructing a safe of wrought-iron barsbolted together and flanged at both edges in such manuel' as to leavespaces between said bars, which spaces or chambers are filled withmolten metal through suitable orifices in the bars, as will hereinaftermore fully appear.

In the drawings- A A represent hars of wrought iron, which may be of anydesired numher,and are secured together by the bolts a a.

The bars A are provided with the flanges B, which form spaces D Dbetween said bars,- into which spaces molten metal D is poured throughthe orifices E.

By this means all the spaces loetweenthe bars A are filled, making thewhole a solid mass of metal, which is almost impervious to the drill.Any kind of hard metal may be used for the filling material, white ir'onbeing preferred.

Having thus fully described our invention,

What we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

Constructing a burglar-proof safe as described.

In testimony whereof, we have signed our names to this specification inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' LEWIS EWHITING.

FRANKLIN SMITH. Witnesses:

CARROLL D. WRIGHT, QHARLES F. BROWN.

